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Pep Guardiola insists Manchester City’s Champions League last-16 tie with Monaco is far from over ahead of this week’s second leg at Stade Louis II.

City lead 5-3 after a pulsating first leg at the Etihad Stadium last month, a game that saw them score three times in the final 20 minutes to assume control of the tie.

But the Blues boss says Monaco’s attacking quality means they have a good chance of overturning the deficit and cited Barcelona’s dramatic comeback against Paris Saint-Germain last week as evidence of what can happen if a team has belief.

“After five mins of our game against Monaco at home, I realised how tough it would be,” he said.

“Every time we lost the ball in the first ten minutes at the Etihad, the way they reacted with [Kylian] Mbappe, [Thomas] Lemar, Bernardo Silva, [Radamel] Falcao, [Benjamin] Mendy and [Djibril] Sidibe, the full backs, I immediately realised that the game will not be done until the 92nd or 93rd minute in Monaco.